阿尔斯通前高管提请美国法官驳回其所受海外贿赂相关指控
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NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Lawyers for Lawrence Hoskins, a former Alstom senior vice president, last week asked a judge to dismiss charges against their client over delays that they say have violated his constitutional right to a speedy trial.
Mr. Hoskins, who was arrested in 2014, is charged with helping organize a scheme to bribe Indonesian government officials to win a $118 million power contract for Alstom.
The latest round of pretrial motions in the case—one of the longest-running FCPA cases currently being litigated—demonstrates the obstacles prosecutors face in bringing charges of bribery that occurred outside the U.S., as well as the obstacles faced by executives in defending themselves against those charges.
Mr. Hoskins, a British national who worked for Alstom in a Paris suburb for less than three years, has made his tenuous links to the U.S. central to his defense. He says he never set foot in the U.S. while at Alstom, which has its headquarters in France.
“Mr. Hoskins is living proof of the significant challenges faced by foreign nationals defending charges in the United States that are premised on old, extraterritorial conduct,” Chris Morvillo, a lawyer representing Mr. Hoskins, said at a pretrial hearing last Wednesday.
The case is being heard in the U.S. District Court in Connecticut, where an Alstom subsidiary was based. Alstom agreed to pay $772 million in 2014 to resolve the Justice Department probe. Mr. Hoskins’s trial is scheduled to begin Sept. 3.
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